Flowerpot cover



i Patented Dec. 14, 1926.I

' 'the stitching. In the present instance only# UNITED STATES PATENT o FFI'CE.

LOUIS O. BOUCHARD, QF PHILADLPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

rLowERror COVER.

Application med July s,

sirable characteristics above referred to and.v

which is comparatively inexpensive both as to the material employed and as tothe -process of manufacture.. i

Generally stated, the invention may .be

` said to comprise a` flower pot cover ofpaper,

crepe orotherwise, with a trimming of paper or oth er material and a rubber .ar--

ranged at any point between the top and bottom of th e cover and concealed by the trimming and stitched with ornamental stitching, the paper and tri rubber serving to gather fthe mining and to be expanded to permit.- the cover to be applied to pots of various sizes to the pot.

andto hold the cover snugly -The inventlon alsocomprises the improvements to be presently described and finally In the following descriptionreference is made to the accompanying drawing forming part hereof and in which- Figure 1 isa view illustrative. of the manufacture of the article.

AFig'. 2 is-a perspective view of the finished cover, and

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic sectional view of the' cover.

Referring to Fig. 1,

ell be crepe-paper. The trim'- which may w -1 is a stripof paper ming 2 may well bea str1-p of paper, crepe' or otherwise,fr and: gathered, if preferred. 3 is aline of ornamental stitching such as can be made with one or more needles.

neath the stitching and the lower edge of the trimming and caught thereby there is a strip of rubber or elastic 4,-which is alsov caught 'by one row of stitches 5" catches the rubber or i elastic 4 as is of the strip indicated in Fig. 3. The top of paper l may be fluted or otherwise ornamented and this is true ofthe strip 2. At

, paper of the the time of the sewing, the strips 1 and 2 is not under 192e. serial No. 121,124.

ber 4 is under tension. The appearance is generally illustrated yin Fig. 1. However,

-when the tension upon the rubber or elastic 4 1s released, the rubber contracts and causes the article to assume the appearance generally indicated in Fig. 2. The article shown in Fig. 2 is made by uniting the ends of the products illustrated in Figf 1. The rubber.

or elastic 4 is disposed at some point between the top and bottom of the flower pot cover. Then the rubber is caught by a single line of stitches, as in Fig. 3, it tends to hold the cover well onto the pot but it will do that even if'caught by more than one line of stitches. '6 indicates ridges with which some crepe paper is provided.

The fact that the trimming 2 isstitchcd at its lower edge and free at itsvupper edge tends to impart a tapering form to the coverI whereby `it is adapted to well /fit the flower pot.

' lt will be obvious to those skilled in. the art to which the invention relates that modifications may be made in details of construction and arrangement and matters of mere form witho`ut departing from the spirit of the .invention which is not'limited to such matters orl otherwise than the prior art and the appended claims may require.

-Iclai1n:v'.`

1. An expansible' flower pot cover consisting of gathered paper and having a trim ming of paper and an elastic or rubber arrangedbetween the top and bottom 'of the cover and underlyingv the trimming, and ornamental stitching securing the trimming 'and cover and rubber together. I

v 2. An expansible flower pot cover of crepe paper having an elastic or rubber arranged between its top and bottom, and stitching securing the rubber or elastic to the cover, the paper being gathered bythev rubber or elastic topermit the latter to stretch without tearing the paper.

3. A flower pot cover of gathered crepe `paper having a gathered trimming of crepe paper and a rubber or elastic arranged between the top and bottom of the cover,- the rubber underlying the lower edge of the trimming, .and ornamental stitching connectin. the lower edge of the trimming-ind the ru ber and the cover.

11.011150. BOUCHARD. 

